Staten Island Advance/Irving SilversteinStaten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan and NYPD Chief of Narcotics Joseph Resnick, listen as U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of New York Loretta E. Lynch discuss the arrest of a number of suspects believed to be guilty of prescription drug abuse in this June 6 file photo.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The manager of a Concord medical office, who, prosecutors said, forged oxycodone prescriptions for friends and associates, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail and five years' probation.

David Zaritsky, 44, must also complete a drug-treatment program, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

The Westerleigh resident pleaded guilty two months ago in state Supreme Court, St. George, to third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree forgery, both felonies.

The sweep was part of a crackdown on doctor-shopping, in which individuals obtain and fill multiple prescriptions for painkillers from different physicians.

Zaritsky was charged under a 48-count indictment.

Prosecutors allege he wrote and disseminated bogus prescriptions for oxycodone, a powerful and potentially addictive painkiller, to a number of individuals.

The recipients included Christine Oakes, a phlebotomist from New Springville, who allegedly used her own position to obtain scripts from doctors as a "professional courtesy," and Ms. Oakes' mother, Joyce Silvestri, of Mariners Harbor, said prosecutors. Their cases are pending in Stapleton Criminal Court, online state court records show.